Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-PicayuneNew Orleans police work a scene inside the gates of Armstrong Park where a body was found next to the Municipal Auditorium Thursday morning.

A man walking his dog on Basin Street smelled what police described as s "foul odor" coming from the side of the Municipal Auditorium found Dagmar Gisela Graeble's decomposing body under bushes and amid bedding material.

An autopsy the Orleans Parish coroner's office completed found Graeble's throat had been slit.

According to police, Dagmar, whose identity was made public today, was last seen holding a suitcase on the corner of North Rampart and Toulouse streets about 10:30 p.m. Aug. 7. Police did not release any information about a suspect in the case.

New Orleans Police DepartmentDagmar Gisela Graeble

Anyone with information about Graeble's death should call homicide Detective Brandon Ludwig at 504.658.5300 or Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111 or 877.903.7867.